Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-07-03
WASHINGTON.
Official Statement Of the Work Done
by the Pension Office Durir g the
Last Fiscal Year.
The Accounts OF tho Lat0 Financial
Clerk Of the Interior Department
Show o &2S, 600 Deficiency,
q 5wede, an Escaped LunatiC from al
Illinois Asylum, Threatens 10 KIN
President Cleveland.
4 coon PENSION SHOWING

prepared at the Pension Onice shows that
during the last fiscal year there were
issued lI2, $40 pension certificates. OF
THIS number 55,l94 wa3e original cases,
S+55 we're Mexican war claims under the
act Of January %, 1857, 10, 05O were ampu-
tstiOa cases under the act Of August 6,
1856, and -, ll2 we're increase cases.
The remainder were reissue, restoration
or issued claims. This showing is said
10 be the best ever made by the office. In
fSSf, with proofs OF disability in nearly
ali cnSes practically at hand, there were
80 ~ original allowances made. This
was the best record up to this year. The
statement is also made that there is not g
case in the Pension Office that has not
been overhauled during the last year and
= proper steps taken &c advance toward s
settlement.
LARGE DEFICIENCY.
WASHINGTON, July An examination
which has been made of the accounts Of
Levi Bacon, financial clerk in the Interior
Department, who died the 22d uIt., re-
vealed 2 deficiency Of S28 900. Inquiry
/ j said 10 show that for q long time prior
to his death ne either misappropriated
PUBLIC moneys or permitted loose methods
Of transaCting business in his office. Upon
BacOn's deCease, ct the request Of MS
bOndsmen, Jay Hubbell and James H..
Norris, Secretary Lamar appointed q com
mittee to examine and settle mis- accounts
The report Of the committee, submitted
to the Secretary 2 few days sgo, is
said to snow deficiency Of more
than S26,0C0, of which S1G,O0
I is represented by due bills to employees
in the Chce to whom Bacon had advanced
money. Some Of the bills are dated as
far back as 1879. It is believed that 8
considerable part OF the money repre-
sented by these bills cen be recovered.
. Secretary Lamar to-day issued 81 order
( directing the disJUTsing officer to retain
part OF the salaries of employees whose
due bills are held, and thus secure the
+ government against loss as much IS
{ possible. This policy was pursued to-day
/ n making the monthly payment Of sails
Sies. The remainder Of the missing
/ 52S, 900 is said to be represented by the
/ paper Of persons outside the Department
and by shortage of $500 in the attor-
/ neys' fund Of the Patent Office. As far
IS the investigation mss gone it does not
prove that Bseon appropriated the money
1 to his own private use, but indicates that
he was rather 100 accommodating 20 his
friends.
A CRAZY MAN.
Special to the Gazette.
WASHINGTON, July "a Swede, VINO
gives his name as Benedict KTebs and his
nome st Springfield, ILL.,, has been arrested
as being insane and for threatening to
kill the President. He says President
Clevelsnd owes him 5000, 100000 and
won't pay the debt, and he intends to
make him. Ip one of his crazy fits ne
held piece of soap in his hand and said:
off l can't get anything else I'll kill
| Cleveland with this" Yesterday he said
he was going to get a double barreled
shotgun, and when President Cleveland
was at church Sunday he was going to
shoot the top of mis- head of. Krebs
came here about thhee weeks ago. and
says he is carpenter. He will be sent
back to the Illinois asylum, WEenCe he
escaped.
NOT SATISFACTORY TO THE PRESIDENT.
special to the Gazette.
WASHINGTON, July Pit is intimated
that the selection Of Colonel II. NJ. La
Zolle to succeed the late Colonel Scott, in
charge of the War Records Publication
Office, is extremely iistsstefuI TO the
President, and is the occasion of addi-
and the Secretary of War. Whether the
suppression of certain records is involved
in the controversy or not will appear in
due time.
TEXAS PENSIONS.
Special to the Gazette.
WASHINGTON, July 2.-The following
Texas pensions were issued to-day:
Hannah, widow of Wiley McGraw, Gal
weston; John L. Roberts, Red Rock
Farmer, Eagle Ford; John Been, Lam
pasas; Joseph T. BurbsOn, Flatonia;
Joseph B. Barry, Walnut William Buster,
Savoy; John C.. Sturm, San Antonio John
z. Phillips, La Grange; Frank Blair,
Clinton; Gabriel Slaughter, Starr; John
B. Tucker, Stephenville: Samuel Terrell |
Garrett; Ward G. Vaughn, Dublin;
Charles 81. Williams, Thorndale; Carl
Weyrich, Fredericksburg; Thomas ions, /
White Grove; Sails NJ. Butler, BESIDE .
mona; Eli Burwick, Orange; Pleasant
a. Barhill, Liberty Hill; Hugh Sheridan, /
Gatesville; James II. McCooCkle, Stars /
Vile; Arthur Lott, Porter Springs; John I
S. Ford, San Antonio; Andrew j. Dom; ,
Austin; John L. Taylor, Howard; James /
Brook, Dallas; M. r. Bennett, Bourne; /
Sam Francis, MadisonviLe; Walter P. )
Lane, Marshall; James V. Matson, Hub /
bard City; Jasper N. Mabray, Valley |
Mills; John F. w. Miller, Blanco; John /
L. Purvis, Fort Worth; W. W. Pharr, Cor |
rigan; Thomas G.. Barber, Browning: 7
Mather Q. TrOusdale, NOlGnYille; William .
r. Shannon, Weatherford; William San ,
son, Jyslde; Martin II. Rockwell, Al /
bany; Jesse Paul, X. Rogers, Halloweil; /
William G. Bennett, Van Alstyne; James /
A. Moore, Tennessee Colony; d b. I
Price, Cleburne; John Farmer Rice, Frio; /
William Q. White, hilleen; Karl FUCHS, /
Bertram; Simon r. Brown, Denison;
Fred Bsldauf, Corsicana; Hiram T. Ora
vens, Texarksna; John W Duncan, Pal
estine; Henry c. Gaggett, Bird
vile; Fielding L. DGkerson, Lu-
Ling; Joseph Hof Pickett, EWell;
William w. Norwood, Palestine; Dewitt
C. Lyons, Helena; Samuel =. Taught,
ST., Haught's store; John G. Rocks,
Round Rock; Charles ". Berry, Joshua
James NJ. Patton, Henley: Daniel NJ.
Pate, NacogdOches; John Pitts, Ledbet-
ter; Christian Shafsr, Galveston; Fran ;
els NJ. Thompson, Sherman; Julius
SchnIchard, Fredericksburg; william 7. /
Thurmon, Montague; Ezekiel D. Wa3ke1, /
Austin; Joseph Walls, Audubon; Little |
berry Write, China Springs.
TEXAS POSTAL BULLETIN,
Special to the Gazette.
WASHINGTON, July Postal bulletin
for Texas: postohice has been es-
tablished at Durham, Borden county,